: a large pear that has a creamy white, juicy flesh and a greenish-yellow skin marked with red
Though not as readily available as the other varieties, the Comice has become my second favorite eating or dessert pear, since it's usually sweet and full of flavor.—
Nancy Baggett, The Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2003 Buttery Comices, the most delicately perfumed and smoothest textured, can be stuffed and baked and served with various flavors of ice cream or sabayon.—Lindsey Remolif Shere, Gourmet, October 1985
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